Matthew - Check the following on Chiff & Fipple whistle forum <[1]http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=70731&hilit=no rthumbrian> It's from Jerry Freeman, whistle tweaker and maker, talking about how he set up some whistles to fit with Chris Ormston and Andy May's pipes. Best wishes. Steve On 1/31/11 5:01 PM, "Matthew Boris" <[2][email protected]> wrote: > At the Potomac piper's gathering a few weeks back, I noticed that few > folks had instrument set up to jam with the NSP players in their F+ > sets, except for one pennywhistle player. Is there any standard way to > play in F+ on a tinwhistle? Is it best to get an F whistle (low or > high), take off the head, trim a bit of the top of the body so you can > slide the head tighter? Or do the same on a C whistle to sharpen your > F scale (the "three fingers down" pitch)? Or do folks do the opposite > and get a 'whistle that can play a G scale and pull the head out to > bring the G down to F+? > > Any advice on how to go about this, and which marques of 'whistle are > easiest to modify? Strings instruments are easy to play in F+ with, > clearly, though for my concertina it'd take a pretty specific re-tune > to play F+! > > -Matthew > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
References 1. http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=70731&hilit=northumbrian 2. file://localhost/net/people/lute-arc/[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
